Author: mike

Dying cancer kids don’t want cards anymore, they want one last chance at sex.

Hey, so CAPAlerts, God bless their crazy little souls, have decided that the Lord of the Rings movie was obviously designed by Satan to destroy the Christian religion. Well, I hope for their innocent...

So IMF-dictated austerity plans have caused yet another less-developed country to go tits up! Argentina has always provided atextbook example of how the Washington-controlled IMF controls development in the rest of the world so...

I liked this article a lot. It explains how Al Qeada can recruit so successfully from the ranks of the middle-class wannabees in developing nations, who’ve been sold a pup by right-wing, Western ideology....

Could Pierce Brosnan be doing some method acting on Her Majesty’s Secret Service? Check out the guy on the far left…

London Review of Books on Tolkien. [Tolkien] declared himself a monarchist and a Catholic; and no, it wasn’t Eliot. In form, in content, in everything about it, The Lord of the Rings is the...

Another HotOrNot-themed site: AmIAHackOrNot? Submit your writing and get it marked.

Thucydides, an aristocrat who lived in Greece around 450 BCE, wrote this, commenting on how stronger sides in a war dictate reality to weaker ones. It’s mentioned in passing here, a good article from...

I like this review of the Lord of the Rings movie. Apparently, it uses all the same digital composiiton and effects that Lucas used in Phantom Menace, but doesn’t fall into his trap where...

An academic, Marc Herold, has calculated that reported Afghan civilian casualities now number around 3,500 — the same number of civilians that died in the WTC. His analysis shows that average direct civilian casualties...